Base for bottle-filling machines.



A. SCHNEIDER.

BASE FOB. BOTTLE FILLING MACHINES.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 16, 1911. RENEWED SEPT. a, 1913,

Patented July 21, 19M

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFTQE.

ADOLPH SCHNEIDER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 BANNILNG & BANNING, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A FIRM COMPOSED (2F THOlVIAS A. BANNING, SAMUEL W.

BANNING, AND WALKER BANNING.

BASE FOR BOTTLE-FILLING MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 21, 1914.

Application filed May '16, 1911, Serial No. 627,421. Renewed September 5, 1913. Serial No. 788,324.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ADOLPH SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States, residing Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bases for Bottle-Filling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a supporting standard for the bottle holders, tilling tubes and other appliances employed with bottle'filling machinery.

The objects of the present invention are, to arrange the parts so that the minimum number of packed joints can be employed; to make the base of a general open formation to lighten and simplify the construction, and thus reduce the cost of manufacture of the same; to provide openings in the base for the accommodation of the gearing for rotating certain parts carried by the base.

The invention further consists in the features of construction and the combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the base or standard of the present invention; Fig. 2, a section on a somewhat enlarged scale taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a vertical section on a somewhat enlarged scale of the parts shown in Fig. 1.

The base or standard consists of a ring 4, from which extend a series of legs 5, each, as shown, converging upwardly toward a common center, and each spaced away from one another. The legs terminate in a web 6, which extends in the form of an integral circular band; and this web is configured upon its interior, as will be hereinafter described, to provide mountings for the various hollow conduits carried by the base member. Upwardly extending from the web 6 are a plurality of standards or supporting legs 7 spaced away from one another to provide openings 8, in one of which is located a bevel gear 9, driven by a shaft 10, journaled within a lug 11 extending from the web 6. This shaft and gear are power driven. The gear 9 meshes with a gear 12 secured, as shown more clearly in Fig. 3, to an elongated hollow sleeve 13. The standards or supports 7 merge, at their upper ends, into a ring or flange 14, which contains a ball raceway 15. The sleeve 13 terminates in a flange or ring 16 containing a ball raceway 17; and interposed between the flanges 14 and 16 and traveling in the various raceways heretofore referred to are a series of ball bearings 18.

Positioned to the outside of the sleeve 13 is a collar 19 locked in place by a set screw 20. Said collar, as shown, bears against the under face of the flange 14 and prevents upward movement of the sleeve 13, downward movement of said sleeve being prevented by the flange or ring 16, the two flanges co operating to maintain the sleeve in a fixed plane, and prevent longitudinal movement of the sleeve.

As heretofore stated, the gear 12 is driven by the gear 9, and the gear 12 is furthermore locked to the sleeve 13. Thus the rotation of the gear 12 rotates the sleeve 13, and since this has a ball bearing connection at its upper end with the flange 14, which is stationary, a smooth and easy revolution of the sleeve is obtained. The lower end of the sleeve 13 finds a seat in the interior portion of the web 6, said web being formed with a centrally located upper recess 21, in. which is positioned a packing 22 held in place by a ring 23, which serves to prevent a leakage of fluid at the juncture of the web and the sleeve. Immediately below the terminus of the sleeve is a chamber 24, into which enters a pipe 25 extending from a source of pressure supply. The pressure entering into the chamber 24 passes upwardly through the sleeve 13 into a pressure tank or other suitable receptacle.

Located within the interior of the sleeve 13 is a pipe 26 of smaller diameter than the bore, leaving a space between the outer surfaces of the pipe and the inner surface of the interior passage through the sleeve. This pipe is entered into the web 6 at a point below the chamber 24, the webbing at this point being formed with a centrally disposed lowerrecess 27, into which is entered a packing 28 and a screw-threaded member 29 bearing against the packing. The screw threaded member is joined to a coupling 30, which leads from a suitable source of liquid supply. Thus, in the arrangement shown, the pipe 26 is for the conduction of fluid, and the sleeve 13 for the conduction of air. These are separated from one another so that no commingling of these elements can result during their passage through the base of the machine, and but one packing member for the sleeve and one packing member for the pipe is provided which is all that is necessary, since the only place where leakages could occur is at the upper end of the webbing and the lower end of the webbing, the necessity for other intermediate sections of packing being eliminated.

It will be observed that the construction of the base member is open, the only solid portion being the transverse webbing. This results in a decrease in the amount of material necessary to construct the base, as well as in a saving of material and a consequent reduction in the cost of manufacture; and it enables the base to be more easily shipped and possesses other advantages usually attendant upon such a form of construction.

I claim: 7

1. A base for filling machines comprising an open work supporting standard, a chambered web formed integral with said stand ard and extending transversely across said standard, a sleeve for the conduction of air mounted in said web, a packed joint at the juncture of said web and sleeve, a tube for conducting liquid, said tube being of smaller diameter than the interior of said sleeve and lying within said sleeve and extending through said web, substantially as described. 2. A base for filling machines comprising an open work supporting standard, a chambered web formed integral with said stand-.

ard and extending transversely across said standard, a sleeve for the conduction of air mounted in said web, a packing for the upper face of said web to prevent leakage'at the juncture of the sleeve and web, a tube for conducting liquid, said tube being of smaller diameter than the interior of said sleeve and lying within said sleeve, and a packing on the under face of said web to prevent leakage at the juncture of the web and pipe, substantially as described.

3. A base for filling machines comprising open work supporting members, a web fixedly secured to said supporting members and extending transversely between the sup porting members, a chamber centrally located within said web, a sleeve mounted in said web and terminating above said chamber, a connection between said chamber and the source of air supply, a tube within said sleeve of smaller diameter than the interior of said sleeve,- said tube being mounted in that portion of the web below said chamber, substantially as described.

4. A base for filling machines, comprising an openwork supportingstandard, a chambered web fixedly secured "to said standard and extending transversely across said standard, a sleeve for the conduction of air mounted in said web, a packed joint at the juncture of said web and sleeve, a chamber within said web'communicating with the in terior of said sleeve, a connection from a source of pressure supply entering said chamber, a tube for conducting liquid, said tube being located within said sleeve and of smaller diameter than the interior of said sleeve, means for locking said tube in said web, and a connection between said tube anda chamber centrally locatedin said web and lying intermediate the lower termini ot the sleeve and pipe, a gear secured to said sleeve, a driving gear meshing with the first mentioned gear, said latter gear lying within the spaces between the upwardly extending standards and having a bearing in said web, substantially as described.

6. A base for filling machines comprising a webextending transversely of said base, a series of separated supporting standards extending downwardly from said web to which said web is fixedly secured, a series of separated supporting standards extending upwardly from said web, a sleeve mounted in said web, a tube within said web, a chamber centrally located in said web and lying intermediate the lower termini of the sleeve and tube, a gear secured to said sleeve, a driving gear meshing with the first mentioned gear, said latter gear lying within the spaces between the upwardly extending standards, a shaft for the driving gear, and a lug on said web acting as a bearing for said shaft, substantially as described.

ADOLPH SCHNEIDER.

lVitnesses:

Ernnana BANNING, WM. P. BOND.

- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G. 

